About this Project/Website(s):

This informative and educational project, containing several books, hundreds of articles and
some related websites, is developed and managed by
Mohamed Haj Yousef. The main purpose is to
study the extensive heritage and immense works of the most renowned Muslim
scholar and famous Sufi thinker, the Greatest Master Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi,
in order to understand and appreciate his profound
wisdom and present it to the ever-growing groups of audience and interested
readers, in the Arab and Islamic worlds, as well as internationally.

This life-long project started in the early 1990s, as a personal reflection and strong disposition towards reading the Islamic mystical literature, which then coincided with my juvenile curiosity and amateur interest in astronomy and cosmology. Therefore,
this was quickly developed into a steady devotion and strong commitment that was inaugurated by my first book,
in Arabic, published by Dar-ul-Hayat (Aleppo/Beirut), in 1999. Even in this
early product, titled: "The Path of the Heart'' - focused on explaining the Sufi Interpretation of Joseph Story (Chapter 12 in Quran), it was very clear to me that Ibn al-Arabi is
truly the "Greatest Master".

Hence, it became very obvious to me that he deserves a full-time
devotion and more professional study. For this reason, it was decided, thereafter that I should focus my research on Ibn
al-Arabi's eccentric conception of time and cosmology, which eventually produced the Single Monad Model,
in 2007, to be followed by the
Duality of Time Theory, in 2017. During this decade, and as "secondary project"
I devoted most of my time to study the complete biography of Ibn al-Arabi
(in Arabic, with the title "Shams-ul-Maghrib" - the Sun from the West, published in 2006,
by Dar Fussilat, in Aleppo),
as well as the biography of Sheikh
Ramadan Subhi Deeb (published in 2012 by Dar Teibah, in Damascus), whom many prominent scholar call him as "the Living
Ibn al-Arabi", in order to get more
insights and better awareness of distinct mystical path of knowledge.

On the other hand, since my original research on Ibn al-Arabi's time and cosmology was mainly based on a tiny portion of the
Meccan Revelations, both in terms of passages size and the vast extent of subjects tackled in this
"magnum opus", thus I decided to work on translating this essential book into English, since most of the serious scholarship nowadays is performed by students or scholars who may not have full access to the Arabic text, not to mention the fact that this extensive Arabic text itself needs to be properly edited, indexed and characterized to allow easier access, benefiting from existing computer accessibilities. This job, however, was not easy at all,
and I remember when I decided to work on this book, I conversed about the
idea with some prominent scholars in the field and I was utterly
discouraged, claiming that translating this book is absolutely impossible;
due to its magnitude, complexity and mystical nature. Although I was
definitely aware of that, I decided to try, but after I completed the first
draft of the first volume, out of thirty seven, I had to stop because I
realized much more difficulties than that I had been initially warned.
Indeed, after finishing the first draft of the first volume, and part of
the second one, I had to stop, also because of the new astonishing
developments in my original project on the subject of time, which
consolidated into the Duality of Time Theory and
Ultimate Symmetry, as well as
the Chest of Time.

Now, as my intricate mission is becoming more demanding and diverging, I decided to put all my work
together into the following websites, where I could (continously) publish any new materials
that may emerge as I am still working on these diverging projects.